The panel, which is being overseen by the assembly’s legal services director, Jeff Godfrey, is expected to include up to eight law firms.
Firms were asked to take part in a preliminary exercise in October and a formal tender process began in November. Firms are now awaiting confirmation of acceptance with the panel likely to take effect from February.
The Welsh Development Agency had a legal panel but this was disbanded after it became part of the Welsh Assembly last April. Although the assembly has used a number of firms, it has favoured the
It is understood both firms have tendered for places on the new roster.
Such panel places can be lucrative.
In May this year, a clutch of firms secured spots on the slimmed-down legal panel for the Scottish Executive. The eight-strong roster includes the local arms of DLA Piper and Pinsent Masons, which retained places alongside big four Scots rivals
The reshuffle saw the body, which acts as the executive arm of the Scottish Parliament, drop previous panel firms McGrigors and Shepherd & Wedderburn as well as City firm CMS Cameron McKenna.
